1849 in literature explained
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1849.—Dickens, opening of David Copperfield
Events
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New books
Fiction
Children and young people
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
- January 9 – Laura Kieler (née Petersen), Norwegian novelist and dramatic inspiration (died 1932)
- January 22 – August Strindberg, Swedish dramatist (died 1912)
- February 18 – Alexander Kielland, Norwegian novelist (died 1906)
- February 27 – Václav Beneš Třebízský, Czech novelist (died 1884)
- March 10 — Mary Evelyn Hitchcock, American author and explorer (died 1920)
- April 1 — Mary K. Buck, Bohemian-born American author (died 1901)
- April 24
- June 9 – Karl Tanera, German military writer and novelist (died 1904)
- July 22 – Emma Lazarus, American poet (died 1887)
- July 30 – Lettie S. Bigelow, American poet and author (died 1906)
- August 8 – Hume Nisbet, Scottish thriller writer, poet and artist (died 1923)
- August 9 – Amy Catherine Walton (née Deck, writing as Mrs. O. F. Walton), English writer of Christian children's books (died 1939)
- August 23 – W. E. Henley, English poet (died 1903)
- August 30 – J. M. Dent, English publisher (died 1926)
- September 3 – Sarah Orne Jewett, American writer (died 1909)[9]
- October 7 – James Whitcomb Riley, American writer and poet (died 1916)
- October 31 – Marie Louise Andrews, American writer and editor (died 1891)
- December 16– Mary Hartwell Catherwood, American author and poet (died 1902)[10]
- November 24 – Frances Hodgson Burnett, English children's writer and playwright (died 1924)
- date unknown
Deaths
- January 6 – Hartley Coleridge, English poet and critic (alcohol-related, born 1796)[11]
- February 8 – France Prešeren, Slovenian poet (liver disease, born 1800)
- February 19 – Bernard Barton, English Quaker poet (born 1784)
- May 22 – Maria Edgeworth, Anglo-Irish novelist (born 1768)
- May 28 – Anne Brontë, English novelist and poet (tuberculosis, born 1820)[12]
- June 4 – Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington, Irish novelist and literary hostess (born 1789)
- July 7 – Goffredo Mameli, Italian poet (infection from bayonet wound, born 1827)
- July 12 – Horace (Horatio) Smith, English poet and novelist (born 1799)[13]
- July 25 – James Kenney, English dramatist (born 1780)
- July 27 – Charlotte von Ahlefeld, German novelist (born 1781)
- July 31 – Sándor Petőfi, Hungarian poet and revolutionary (probably killed in Battle of Segesvár, born 1823)
- August 25 – Adele Schopenhauer, German novelist and paper-cut artist (born 1797)
- October 7 – Edgar Allan Poe, American poet, short story writer and critic (born 1809)
Notes and References
- Book: Paul, Herbert . Herbert Paul
. The Life of Froude . Herbert Paul . 1906 . Charles Scribner's Sons . New York. 47–48.
- Book: Sutherland, John. John Sutherland (author)
. John Sutherland (author). The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction . London . 1988.
- Book: Willey, Basil . Basil Willey
. More Nineteenth Century Studies: a Group of Honest Doubters . registration . Basil Willey . 1956 . Chatto & Windus . London. J. A. Froude . 131.
- Book: Ashton, Rosemary . Jasper & Wright . The Critical Spirit and the Will to Believe . 1989 . St. Martins . New York . 76 . Doubting Clerics: From James Anthony Froude to Robert Elsmere via George Eliot.
- Book: Briggs, Asa. Cole, G. D. H.. Saville, John. Essays in Labour History. 1967. Macmillan. 166.
- News: The new stone. BBC News . 30 April 2013 . 2020-06-07.
- According to the man who found him, Joseph W. Walker. Book: Quinn, Arthur Hobson . 1998 . Edgar Allan Poe: A Critical Biography . Baltimore . Johns Hopkins University Press . 978-0-8018-5730-0 . 638. (Originally published New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc., 1941.)
- Book: Philip Massinger. The Plays and Poems of Philip Massinger. 1976. Clarendon Press. 978-0-19-811894-7. lxxi.
- Book: Edward T.. James. Janet. Wilson James. Paul S.. Boyer. Notable American Women, 1607-1950: A Biographical Dictionary. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. 1971. 274. 978-0-67462-731-4.
- Book: Robert, Price. Catherwood, Mary Hartwell. Edward T.. James. Notable American Women, 1607-1950: A Biographical Dictionary. 1. 1971. 978-0-67462-734-5. 308.
- Derwent Coleridge, memoir, 1851.
- Web site: Anne Brontë British author . Encyclopedia Britannica . 8 April 2019 . en.
- Web site: Horace Smith English writer . Encyclopedia Britannica . 8 April 2019 . en.